With a stiff nor'easterly battering beaks and capsizing morale, it's with a fresh sense of urgency that our Victorianised farmers approach their first, historically accurate, 1880s winter. Chaff is duly chopped, fir trees levelled, berries boiled, pigs coddled and authentically repulsive rustic neckerchiefs tightened, hurriedly. Observations? Shropshire rain looks like normal rain, but is wetter. Geese don't like being stared at. Above all else, however, is the cheering, hearthside glow of a reality series that fosters not gripes and sniggers but resilience, historical exactitude and an emphatically English esprit de corps. What larks, eh, Pip?

All The Young Dudes - Pop & Fashion 9pm, BBC4

Broadcast as part of BBC4's exemplary Style On Trial season, Paul Morley analyses the historical bond between pop and clobber. No preview discs were forthcoming, but the writer's penchant for the unapolo-getically pretentious cultural allusion will doubtless see dazzling insight layered upon blazing twaddle in an examination of a relationship apparently swathed in "sparkly capes and flower-shaped hats".

Tunnellers9pm, History

From the makers of Ice Road Truckers and Axe Men, here's another series hinged on the imperilled lives of uncommunicative North American labourers. This time, it's the mole-men of New York's network of underground tunnels. "Annuddah day in da hole," sighs explosives expert Morgan Curran, plodding dolefully along one of the numerous broiling burrows that constitute his beat. Here, every rumble and clang spells danger, and every sweating menial is keen to emphasise the importance of "balls" in the communal battle for survival ("Ya godda have balls", etc). Superbly edited, there's a melancholy charm to the ensuing, testicular travails.

My Name Is Earl 9pm, E4

Another easy-goin' comic parable from the serviceable US import. Episode two of season four, then, and Earl must make karmic amends for having bullied a neighbour in the 1980s. There follow three nosebleeds, two reconciliations, one purple leisure suit and a revelation that sees Dad (Beau Bridges) embark on an ill-advised sexual odyssey. Like, rad.